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Aircraft Carriers

Timelapse video of forward Island being installed on UK’s future supercarrier

Mar. 14 saw the Aircraft Carrier Alliance, an alliance of several ship building companies (namely BAE Systems, THALES, Babcock and DE&S) released a time lapse video of the installation of…

Richard Clements Richard Clements
March 15, 2013
Drones

Iranian F-4 Phantom jets fail to intercept U.S. Predator off Iran. Once again. Scared by F-22 escort?

According to a statement by Pentagon Press Secretary George Little, on Mar. 12, an IRIAF (Islamic Republic of Iran Air Force) combat plane attempted to intercept a U.S. MQ-1 drone…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
March 14, 2013
Military Aviation

These are the planes the Air Force doesn’t want you to photograph from short distance

Even if you can find thousand images of these planes on websites, forums, etc., there's a weird U.S. Air Force rule according to which some planes involved in Red Flag exercises…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
March 14, 2013
Military Aviation

Cool Red Flag 13-3 Video showing Mass Launch

Here is a cool, long (18 minutes) Red Flag 13-3 video depicting well the scale of such exercise. It shows several planes taking-off from Nellis Air Force Base in order to…

Jacek Siminski Jacek Siminski
March 13, 2013
Helicopters

Have You Ever Wondered Why The AH-64 Is Called “Apache”? The American Indian Tribes Tradition

All of the American Army helicopters are named after either Indian Tribe names, or Indian Tribe Chiefs' names (Apache, Comanche, Chinook etc). This regularity is nowhere near accidental. The most interesting finding…

Jacek Siminski Jacek Siminski
March 13, 2013
F-35

First Joint Strike Missile (JSM) multi-role missile fitted to an F-35

Unveiled on Nov. 29, 2012, the first Joint Strike Missile (JSM) developed for the F-35 by the Norwegian company Kongsberg and the Norwegian Ministry of Defence, was fitted to a…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
March 12, 2013
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